During today's briefing, Kayleigh McEnany said that the president only gets briefed on intelligence "when there is a strategic decision to be made," and that he was not briefed "because there was no consensus." Former gov't briefers say that's not the bar for what's in the PDB.
Former CIA briefer @DavidPriess: “Many intelligence judgments in history have not had the consensus of every analyst who worked on it." nytimes.com/2020/06/29/us/…
Here's the definition of what's in a PDB on the Intel Community's own homepage: "A daily summary of high-level, all-source information and analysis on national security issues." (Granted, PDBs have evolved over administrations, but even this broad definition would apply here)
In other words, it would be a massive sea change in PDB's if the president was only getting briefed on *actionable* items like killing Soleimani.
If you want to know exactly how this sort of information exchange is supposed to happen, watch @nickschifrin’s interview on @NewsHour tonight with former CIA officer @douglaslondon5. It will answer any questions you have. I’ll post the link when it’s up.
Here’s the link: pbs.org/newshour/show/…
